Cart/uus ûentuftorus.
iArDUüS T enuifLorüs. SlendeR-Tlowër’d T histle*
CARDUUS. Linn-. Gen. P J V Sy n g e n e s ï a P o l y g a m i a Æ q u a l i s .
Calyx ovatus, imbricatus, fquamis fpinofis* Recept. pilbfum.
Rail Syrt. Gen. g . H e r b æ f l o r e e x f l o s c u l i s f i s t u l a r i b u s c o m f o s i t o s i v
C A P I T A T Æ ;
CARDUUS tenuiflorus foliis decürrehtibus margine fpinofis; ramis flriffis, calycibus aggregads fcffilibus
oblongo-conlcis, fquamis erefto-patulis pungentibus. ° S g ' S
CARDUUS acantboidcs foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis, margine fpinofis; calycibus aggregatis feffilibus
. fubcyhndrlcls glabns. Lightfmt Fi. Scat. 1. p.451. Greywelted'Tffi?Ue
CARDUUS — M n foliis. decurrentibus Gnuatcdentatis, margine fpinofis, calycibus ovatis termi-
nafibus ae ,ST |effibbus, iquamis acuminatis erefliufculis. Hudfon Fl. Angl. ed. 2.
CARDUUS ahsc™ J ‘nis j^Jimis, M is femipinnatis, pinnis angulofis, fpinofis, floribus Iongis, fafci-
CARDUUS acanthoides. J . Bauh* Hiß. 3. p. giß-.
CARDUUS P .B cR a iiH iß , V. „ p. 369.. cd. 3. A t94. Welted
CARDUUS polyacailthos, capitulis longioribus et tenuionbus foliis albicantibus. Morif. Hiß; 3; p-,
IDIX annua.
JULIS bi-tripedalis, ere&us, bafi ramofus, ramis pau-
cis, fubelongatis, ereftis, ftriftis, teretiufculis,
leviter fulcatis, tomentofis, maxime verfüs
fummitates, alatis, alis latis, fpinofis.
J ROOT annual;
f STALK from two to three feet high, upright, branch;
X ed at the bafe, branches few, long, upright,
X perfefily ftraight, ronndiffi, flightly grooved,
6 cottony, particularly towards the tops, winged’
0 wings broad and fpinous.
§ LEAVES of the ftalk feffile, decurrent, veiny, above
j) fmppthifh, green, befet with whitilh hairs
t prelfed clofe, beneath cottony, the midrib
5 whitilh, the edge fcolloped, toothed, and
P fpinous, fpines long and yellowiffi; radical
5 leaves ovato;oblong, obtufe, divided into
5 ■ lobes which are broad, Obtufe,. and doling
I t o g e t h e r , ■ >. r
? FLOWERS in clutters on the tops of the branches,
iUA caulina feflilia, decurrentia, venofa, fupra gla- 1
briufcula, viridia, pilis adpreffis albidis obfita, <
fubtus tomentofa, cofta albida, margine finu- 1
ata, dentata, fpinofa, fpinis longis, lutefcenti- •
bus; radicalia ovatô-oblonga, obtufa, incifo- !
lobata, lobis latis, obtufis, confluentibus. ’ j
hnall, o f a pale purple or fielh-colour!
5 LALYX : common to all the florets of.an oblong-conical
5 htape, imbricated, fcales upright, Ipreading
\ at toP. long and linear, fpinous, whitilh at
> the bafe, green in the middle, and terminating
c o d o t t “ , yeU°w fpines the length of the florets,
j GURULLA compound, tubular and uniform; the ■
) Florets hermaphrodite,and nearlyequal.Vp-. a,
) SEEDS and Down nearly the fame as in the pncklieft
: Thillle, Jig. 2.
[Bauhine appears to be the firft writer who accurately determined this Carduus, which he calls__ slJ j.
* T i of it in his V n and M orison
LANN“E7 h'S Sfe-C' P L i d-? - aPPUes J- B « h. ne’s name o l acanthoides to Tvery ffifferen
T °“r/'f',cmthos‘ referring to.it at the firne time thefynonyms o f T. B auhine R a y an d Sn .vTov
i V w e f f S 10 dle Prefent fpec.es (vid. fynon.) and which it is problble L innaeus never faw as i l l s '
ftcord whhp ? ’ \ a very genera ^ roFean one ; Mr- L igh t fo .I o t finding L innaeus's defcription not the ID P “ ’ gave * new rpecffic defcnphon to it, retaining the name acanthoides, and Mr H udson
S rX nmi, T ? theref0re .be, exPe£led> that v e Ihould congnue the term acanthoides " f t impofed
|L ,, JmPi .1° . “ t but we are too friendly to reform fo to do, Conceiving that the* term
"jfcniple td change L ' fm e “ ' “ “ * * fpeCleS' Wl“ Ie acamhoiil! “ cans comparatively nothing, we make
US(b^i?Je i S/-a TC.ry common one in the environs of London, growing in the very fuburbV i t „
therefore mod frequently found at’ the foo fo f p a lin g ,T l s, hedges a f o n
obfei'ves ^to ml, — j
JORES in ramorum fummitatibus congefti, feffiles,
parvi, pallide purpurei, aut carnei.
LYX : communis oblongo-conicus, imbricatus, fqua-
mis erefto-patulisj .lineari-elongatis, fpinofis,
bafi albidis, medio viridibus,. apice in fpinas
lutefeentes longitudine fiofculorum exeunti- <
bus.
ROLLA compofita, tubulofa, uniformis ; Corollula 1
I hermaphroditae, fubæquales, fig. 1.
MINA et Pappus zadem fere ut in Card. Polyacanth. |
P banks,
| a lomewhat tender'plant. ““ ^ 1 1 | kinSdom 5
U f a « « from aI1, ou.r other Cardui b y its upright mode o f growth, b y the breadth of the
ied heads r T « ' ° f ,hcgrey.lh appearance of its foliage, and, above all, b y its Jong
l»fitscalyxP d “ S Pma . lowers, of a pale purple or flelh. colour, little . longer than the vlry ftarf
16 excePtedj we have not found it fubjeft to much variation.
Ir " 0 t “liMuenLde!dS t/o preepdrTefenSt Tthec phl,aIanrt gi?nr ,iatsn dm owftb l!lumxt0irriean “t “ftatcef.o us flowers, than is Ihewn in o- ur fi®gure
|e: Fan
mer or Gardener have little or no caufe to complain of it*